Holidays

Passover

As appeared in Torah Tidbits Kadeish Kiddush is said over the first of the Four Cups. Most people stand for Seder Kiddush (even if they usually sit for Kiddush). When saying SHE’HE’CHE’YANU, have in mind the Yom Tov and the mitzvot of matza, Haggada, and the 4 Cups. (Women who make their own Kiddush should […]

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” – Meister Eckhart Last year, not long before Passover was to begin and my thoughts were already on the coming Seders and great drama we would be observing, I happened to be just outside a building when I observed the following small […]

The OU Department of Synagogue Services created this video as part of a compendium of the laws of Mechirat Chametz. The video includes two parts. The first part is a formal shiur given by Harav Mordechai Willig Shlit”a, a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchonon of Yeshiva University, Sgan Av Beth Din of the […]